Fingerprint matching, which I think is called AFIS? It always looked like the technician marked a certain type of characteristic on the fingerprint and those points are matched against the database. Anyone know how that works? I watch those forensic shows and am left wondering.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Jan 04, 2006 9:55:58 am PST #7324 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:33 am PST #7325 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Telephone operators?
Voice recognition is in enormously widespread use, and it's definitely an AI technology.
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them, and although it's cheaper, often less effective for me as the consumer.
I mean, I thought I was call-avoidant, but as soon as I hear that phone option tree coming, I'm hammering 0 as hard as possible to get to someone who understands what I want. Never mind the phone applications that want me to talk to them instead of hit keys. Even worse.
It's still pretending, for me.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:38 am PST #7326 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
All those things still sound like a lot of figuring, quickly, though. Isn't AI supposed to be more?
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:45 am PST #7327 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Keeping with the robot theme, today's featured gadget at CNN online is the Scooba! Considering how much I detest washing my kitchen and bathroom floors, this is something I must get.
Spidra Webster - Jan 04, 2006 9:57:01 am PST #7328 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
BTW- I love your tagline, Dana.
eta: oop. I might have posted that in the wrong thread. Sometimes "read new" is dangerous.
msbelle - Jan 04, 2006 9:57:02 am PST #7329 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Fingerprint matching, which I think is called AFIS? It always looked like the technician marked a certain type of characteristic on the fingerprint and those points are matched against the database. Anyone know how that works? I watch those forensic shows and am left wondering.
magic.
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 9:58:14 am PST #7330 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them, and although it's cheaper, often less effective for me as the consumer.
I don't mean customer service, I mean the actual switching. Which used to be done by people, and is now completely automated. (It's not "intelligent" persay, but it is a human job that is now done by machines.)
Dana - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:05 am PST #7331 of 10002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
And...O'Reilly called the Great Britain intelligence service "M one 6." Uh...
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:25 am PST #7332 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them,
Yeah? Well, I hate Microsoft Word, but that doesn't make it any less of a software application.
A non-hatable voice-recognition application is your voice-triggered cellphone.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:53 am PST #7333 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
Zombie magic.